Program Listing

TU Programs

Trout Unlimited incorporates several unique programs into our overarching mission to conserve and protect North America’s trout and salmon fisheries and their habitat. Specific programs focus on unique issues, ranging from water use and management, to regional conservation-based projects and the protection of our nation’s public lands. These programs are led by qualified directors who guide on-the-ground staffers as they work with volunteers, sportsmen and women, local communities and governmental agencies to get TU’s good work done in some our country’s most iconic watersheds.

Golden State TU staffers have their hands full with dozens of important projects, ranging from restoring habitat for steelhead and coho salmon on the North Coast to protecting remnant populations of golden trout and Lahontan cutthroat trout in the Sierra.

On the Eastern Seaboard, TU is busy working from New England to northern Georgia to protect and restore native brook trout, enhance wild trout waters and working with sportsmen and women to ensure responsible drilling and fracking in the Marcellus Shale region.

TU’s science staff, based in Boise, provides the foundation for all of our conservation work. The science team is doing groundbreaking work in the fields of native fish population surveys, climate change and connectivity.

TU is working to clean up dozens of abandoned mine sites that pollute trout streams all over America. In the West alone, about 40 percent of all our headwater streams are impacted by abandoned mine pollution.

TU’s Western Restoration team focuses on connectivity and restoration work all over the country, where staffers work with landowners, state and federal agencies and local communities to improve stream function and fishing opportunity.

Working solely in the West, the Western Water Project team does on-the-ground restoration and reconnection work in storied watersheds all across the region. Team members work with landowners, state governments and federal agencies to encourage efficient water use and improve stream flows for the benefit of fish and anglers.